COBOL
Introduction
COBOL is one of the oldest computer languages, having been created in 1959. COBOL is an acronym – “COmmon Business Oriented Language”.
The language grew out of a US Department of Defence requirement for a portable programming language for data processing.
Installation
sudo apt-get install open-cobol
First program
Use the Geany editor (Visual Studio Code might work as well)
Identification Division.
Program-ID. HelloWorld.
Data Division.
Procedure Division.
Main-Paragraph.
Display "Hello World"
Stop Run.
Open a console window and change the directory to the location of the file.
Compile with
cobc -x -o hello HelloWorld.cbl
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:COBOL
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/doc/gnucobol.html
